Farm 215
Farm 215 is a private nature reserve run by Maarten Groos. It has over 800 plant species including over 50 rare and threatened plant species. Besides leopards that are recorded by their multiple camera traps, many animals including over 300 bird species have been documented.
A number of programmes in aid of conservation are testament to their ethos, including alien eradication and tree planting programmes. Farm 215 is the first reforestation site of the Trees For Tourism Programme of the South African Reforestation Trust with over 15 000 trees planted as of 2018. Farm 215 is also a conservation servitude by Fauna and Flora Internatiional. Their first step was to rehabilitate Elim Ferricrete Fynbos which is a critically endangered habitat.
Their accommodation facilities includes beautiful accommodation surrounded by fynbos for up to 14 people with a restaurant open between August and May. Find out more at https://farm215.co.za/
Nodes
Agathosma
Agathosma
Diosma hirsuta
Diosma
Adenandra viscida
Protea compacta
Protea acaulos
Protea cordata
Protea repens
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Taxonomy term
Serruria elongata
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From the Latin elongatus = ‘elongated’
Silene
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Gk. Silenos = a Greek woodland deity, half man, half horse or goat, companion of Dionysius, always portrayed as old, bald and bearded, and usually covered with foam or slaver; referring to the sticky secretion of the stems that entrap small insects, thus foiling predators. ‘Catchfly.’
Spatalla
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Gk. spatalos = wanton, riotous. A sexual allusion to the unusually large pollen presenters on so small a flower. Commonly known as ‘spoons’.
Spatalla curvifolia
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From the Latin curvi / curvus meaning ‘curved’; and the Latin folia / folium meaning ‘leaf’.
Spatalla ericoides
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From the Latin -oides meaning ‘resembling'; resembling the genus Erica, the heath
Struthiola
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Gk. strouthos = a starling. The seeds are pointed like a starling’s beak (Hugh Glen). Alternately, Gk. strouthion = a small bird, sparrow (dim. of strouthos = ostrich). Perhaps the seed resembles a sparrow’s beak (WPU Jackson).
Struthiola tetralepis
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From the Greek tetra = 'four' and lepis = 'scale'
Sutera hispida
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From the Latin hispidus = ‘rough’ or 'with bristles'
Syncarpha canescens
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From the Latin canescens = ‘becoming white’
Syncarpha speciosissima
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From the Latin speciosus = 'beautiful', 'splendid', 'spectacular' and -issimus the superlative form = 'extremely', 'most'.
Thesium
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Derivation uncertain. Gk. thes = a hired labourer. An ancient name for a species of Linaria, toad flax, used by Pliny the Elder. Georg Christian Wittstein traces this to the legendary hero Theseus, who slew the Minotaur and to whom Ariadne gave a wreath in which this plant was woven.
Trachyandra
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Gk. trachys = rough; andros = male. The thick filaments are usually hairy.
Tritoniopsis
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Tritonia (q.v.); Gk. -iopsis = resembling.